50 Stallone Movies Ranked From Best To Worst
43) THE LORDS OF FLATBUSH
Set in 1958, this coming of age story follows four Brooklyn teenagers known as The Lords of Flatbush. The Lords chase girls, steal cars, play pool and hang out at a local malt shop.
In the movie, Stallone plays Stanley Rosiello, who impregnates his woman, Frannie (Maria Smith), who then lays on the nagging and demands marriage. While the movie was a box office success, relatively, I’m not sure why anyone would want to visit this goofy angst-fest, it’s not a good movie and was received poorly.
The only thing of interest is Sylvester Stallone’s quarrel with Richard Gere. Whom Stallone supposedly got fired (or the former’s behavior got himself fired). Here is what Stallone said years later…
We never hit it off. He would strut around in his oversized motorcycle jacket like he was the baddest knight at the round table. One day, during an improv, he grabbed me (we were simulating a fight scene) and got a little carried away. I told him in a gentle fashion to lighten up, but he was completely in character and impossible to deal with. Then we were rehearsing at Coney Island and it was lunchtime, so we decided to take a break, and the only place that was warm was in the backseat of a Toyota. I was eating a hotdog and he climbs in with a half a chicken covered in mustard with grease nearly dripping out of the aluminum wrapper. I said, “That thing is going to drip all over the place.” He said, “Don’t worry about it.” I said, “If it gets on my pants you’re gonna know about it.” He proceeds to bite into the chicken and a small, greasy river of mustard lands on my thigh. I elbowed him in the side of the head and basically pushed him out of the car. The director had to make a choice: one of us had to go, one of us had to stay. Richard was given his walking papers and to this day seriously dislikes me.
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